The hqx extension indicates a binhex file, which you could unencode in
a separate pass.

It is tricky, since any mac app that's prepared to be handled by the
arbitrary filesystem, will be encoded.
If you can already open a .bin, get BinHex (below) it'll decode
your .hqx to an .sea, which then will self-extract by being double
clicked.

You will find many classic apps in this archive.   http://www.newnan.cc/FTP.html
BinHex is only 6K!   http://www.pure-mac.com/compen.html#binhex


On Jan 28, 11:13 am, deadwinter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> As I mentioned before, I have a Beige G3 Desktop I've been playing
> with.  In order to get a couple of things installed on the OS9
> partition, I apparently need Stuffit Classic.  However, having
> downloaded Stuffit Classic, I notice that the file has an hqx
> extension, which means that it needs to be opened with...
>
> Stuffit.
>
> I don't have Stuffit in any way shape or form on that machine
> presently.  So I am wondering how to solve this chicken-egg issue and
> if I'm missing something obvious.
>
> Incidentally, I have neither the OS9 or 10.2 CDs
>
> I tried unpacking it on the OS X partition and then burning the
> unpacked file to a CD...no dice.  I keep getting an error that says
> that the system doesn't know what application it was "created with".
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> -carlos

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